Be sure to mark your calendar for the 10thannual Cornerstone Award Reception, to be held Thursday, Oct. 18, at Babe’s Grill & Bar, 5614 Schroeder Road in Madison.

Corporate sponsors for this year’s award reception, which will run from 5-7 p.m., are Bibliotheca,First Business Bankand Hausmann-Johnson Insurance. The SCLS Foundation Board will honor Alice Oakey (right) as the recipient of the 2018 Cornerstone Award. Alice is the former supervisor of Madison Public Library’s Meadowridge Library, 5726 Raymond Road. Also presented that evening will be the:

Super Awesome Library Award,

Giddy Up Partner Award,

Program Wizard Award, and

Outstanding Library Volunteer Award.

Charitable contributions (printable form or online) made prior to Oct. 15, 2018, will be included in the reception program as event sponsors.

“The South Central Library System (SCLS) Foundation Board is excited to honor a librarian like Alice Oakey who has such a passion and commitment for community service,” said Janet Pugh, SCLS Foundation Board President. “She epitomizes the Cornerstone Award, which is given annually to an individual or individuals who have had a significant and long-term impact on enhancing public libraries in South Central Wisconsin. Alice truly represents the values and mission of the South Central Library System Foundation.”

The Cornerstone Award Reception is the SCLS Foundation’s annual fundraising event that helps determine the financial support the foundation can provide to SCLS member libraries in subsequent years.

According to SCLS Foundation guidelines, 50 percent of the monies donated in any given year are made available to support projects that provide benefit to SCLS member libraries. In the past, the SCLS Foundation has provided funds for:

The charming Village of Randolph, population 1,800, has extended the search to replace its retired library director. Randolph has had a public library since 1872 and this beautiful building since 1936. Expanded and modernized in 1997, the building is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The comfortable, modern Hutchinson Memorial Library is located less than six miles from three different lakes, is approximately one hour from Madison and Wisconsin Dells, and is less than a one-hour drive to five different colleges. The Village is self-contained with a beautiful park and pool, shops, churches, two parochial grade schools and a new modern public school grades pre-K to12.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Candidates should be eligible for Grade Three Wisconsin Public Librarian certification, have a minimum of three years of increasingly responsible professional library experience including significant administrative and supervisory responsibility, or can be a recent MLS graduate. A Bachelor’s degree is required.

The September issue of WSLL @ Your Service is now online. As always, your comments are welcome. Please direct them to the editor, Carol Hassler. In this issue: Six sources we love (Part one)-- September is Library Card Signup Month. To mark it, we want to share with you some great databases and sources that you can access for free with your library card (read more); Help us improve our website-- We'd like your help improving our website. Take our surveys (read more); Grand juries-- To mark Juror Appreciation Month, we're focusing on a lesser-known aspect of jury service in Wisconsin: grand juries (read more); New books-- Our featured new titles this month are U.S. Citizenship and Naturalization Handbookand Firearms Law Deskbook. Don't miss our monthly new book list as well (read more); Tech tip-- Cell phone video is ubiquitous these days. However, viewing a cell phone video on a Windows PC can be problematic. This month's tip helps you convert those videos (read more); Library news-- Several CLE-credit classes are scheduled for fall at our Madison and Milwaukee locations (read more); September snapshot-- Photos of Edgar Allan Poe memorials, taken while in Baltimore for the American Association of Law Libraries conference (read more).

There is also an excellent Overdrive Collection Overview available from the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC) It provides details about the collection that may be useful when marketing the service locally to residents, or to municipal representatives during budget discussions.

Participating libraries will work with small groups of approximately 10 teens; provide up to four theme-related books for each participant to keep as their own; convene opportunities for exploration and discussion of humanities content among peers; and offer an interactive session for program participants led by a racial healing practitioner(s).

Up to 70 libraries will be selected to participate. All library types are eligible, as long as they work in partnership with, or are located within, an organization that works with under-resourced youth. Read the full project guidelines.

Choose one of the following themes:

"Deeper than Our Skins: The Present Is a Conversation with the Past"

"Finding Your Voice: Speaking Truth to Power"

Benefits include:

11 copies of up to four books on the reading list

A programming grant of up to $1,200

Travel and accommodation expenses paid for a two-day orientation workshop in Chicago.

NASA Goddard is happy to announce its next Afterschool Universe training to be held Oct. 16-17, and the deadline for registration is Sept. 30. This training is free to all participants, and contingent upon sufficient signups.

This will be a two-day comprehensive, in-person training that will prepare you to lead their program or train others to do so. After successfully completing this training, you will receive a certificate which documents your participation.